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NVDANVIDIANVIDIA A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
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1. NVIDIA $NVDA unveiled its new Open Agent Safety Platform, an open framework designed to continuously monitor and enforce safety for autonomous AI agents across both software and hardware. The platform combines OpenShell, an open-source runtime that sandboxes AI agents with verifiable policies, and NVIDIA Sentry, which runs on BlueField-4 hardware to independently monitor agent behavior and enforce security policies beyond the agent’s control. NVIDIA said the initiative was motivated by recent reports of frontier AI agents escaping evaluation environments and misreporting their actions, arguing that AI agents require an independent trust layer similar to what enabled the modern internet. The company is positioning the platform as an open ecosystem and is inviting frontier AI labs, developers, and infrastructure providers to build on it.
2. Meta $META is launching Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business dedicated to selling its AI tools and services directly to enterprises and developers. The initial offering combines Meta’s enterprise AI stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and other products built on the company’s models, agents, and infrastructure to support customer engagement, software development, and broader enterprise workflows. To lead the new division, Meta hired former MongoDB CEO and President CJ Desai as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg. Before MongoDB, Desai held leadership roles at Cloudflare and spent nearly 8 years at ServiceNow, including serving as President and COO.
3. Finland President Alexander Stubb said Google $GOOGL will invest at least $15.2B in the country over the next 2 years to expand AI and digital infrastructure. Finland currently has around 50 data centers, with another 25 projects in development, potentially bringing the country's total to 75. The investment further strengthens Finland's position as one of Europe's fastest-growing hubs for AI infrastructure and large-scale data center capacity.
4. Boeing $BA fell 6% after reports that the FAA is delaying certification of the 737 MAX 10 while it reviews a newly discovered software issue that could cause the aircraft’s automated navigation system to fail in certain missed-approach scenarios. According to reports, Southwest and United Airlines have told Boeing they do not want deliveries with the affected software and have instead requested an earlier software version. The certification delay adds another hurdle for Boeing as it works to bring the 737 MAX 10 into commercial service.
5. AMD $AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the AI research company founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an $8.2B all-stock transaction. World Labs develops spatial intelligence models capable of generating, reconstructing, and simulating interactive 3D environments from text, images, and video. The acquisition brings World Labs' AI research directly into AMD as the company expands further into reasoning, robotics, simulation, and physical AI. As part of the deal, Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026.
6. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 4.2M contracts, $TSLA with 2.3M contracts, $AAPL with 1.2M contracts, $META with 1.1M contracts, $INTC with 1.1M contracts, $MU with 999K contracts, $AMZN with 728K contracts, $AMD with 704K contracts, $MSFT with 634K contracts, and $SPCX with 622K contracts.
7. NVIDIA $NVDA authorized an additional $150B share repurchase program, the largest increase in share buyback authorization in history, bringing its total remaining authorization to $235B through FY2028. CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s strong cash generation allows NVIDIA to both invest aggressively in the technologies driving the AI transformation and return capital to shareholders. The expanded authorization underscores NVIDIA’s confidence in its long-term growth outlook while providing substantial flexibility for future capital returns.
8. Serious credit card delinquencies continued to rise across several age groups in Q2 2026, with Americans aged 18–29 seeing transitions into 90+ day delinquency climb to 10.1%, up 0.4 percentage points from the prior quarter and the highest level since Q1 2025. The delinquency rate for this group has now more than doubled since Q2 2021. Americans aged 70+ also saw delinquencies rise to 6.3%, the highest since Q3 2011, while the 50–59 age group increased to 6.4%, its highest level since Q4 2024. The data suggests credit stress is continuing to broaden across both younger and older consumers.
9. Retail investors have purchased just $1B of individual U.S. stocks over the last 20 trading days, one of the lowest rolling totals in at least 2 years. In early August, the figure briefly turned negative for the first time since at least October 2024, compared with roughly $20B of 20-day purchases in April 2025. Total retail equity purchases have also slowed sharply, falling to $10B over the last 20 trading days, near their lowest level since at least October 2024. That's down roughly 67% from the $30B recorded over the comparable period in February 2026, highlighting a significant slowdown in retail participation.
10. The 30-year U.S. Treasury Price Return Index has fallen 60% since 2020, dropping to roughly 107, matching its lowest level since 2000. In just 6 years, the index has erased nearly 20 years of gains as the 30-year Treasury yield has surged 478 basis points from its 0.71% intraday low in March 2020. For comparison, the previous largest drawdown over the last 40 years was roughly 35% during the 2008 Financial Crisis. Over the same period, U.S. nominal GDP has grown approximately 63%, highlighting the stark divergence between economic growth and long-duration bond performance.
11. SpaceX $SPCX successfully launched Starship to orbit and deployed its V3 Starlink satellites for the first time, marking Starship’s first revenue-generating mission and a major milestone for the program. According to SpaceX, each V3 Starlink satellite increases the total bandwidth capacity of the entire Starlink constellation by roughly 0.11%. With approximately 11,100 Starlink satellites already in orbit, most of them V2 Mini satellites, future Starship missions carrying up to 60 V3 satellites each could dramatically expand the network’s global capacity while significantly lowering launch costs.
12. U.S. data center IT power demand is projected to surge 755% from 2025 levels, reaching a record 78.57 GW by 2029. Demand is expected to nearly double this year to 17.96 GW, followed by another 97% increase in 2027, as AI infrastructure continues expanding at an unprecedented pace. Between 2026 and 2028, U.S. data centers are expected to require 97 GW of power, but only 21 GW is currently under construction and another 19 GW of grid capacity is available, leaving a potential 57 GW shortfall. The gap is widening as increasingly powerful AI systems consume far more electricity, with servers based on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin and Rubin Ultra architectures expected to drive a 5x increase in IT power demand between 2025 and 2028.
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TSLATeslaTesla A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
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1. President Trump said Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon” remains the administration’s only objective, adding that he has a “big decision” to make regarding the conflict. He also reiterated that he believes the U.S. and Iran will reach a deal after the U.S. election, while saying he would “give no credence to the election” when making decisions on Iran. The remarks come as the administration continues weighing both military and diplomatic options amid ongoing talks with Tehran.
2. Meta $META continues expanding Muse’s ecosystem through new partnerships aimed at turning the AI assistant into a broader consumer platform. The latest integrations include Instacart for grocery shopping and delivery, PayPal for shopping and checkout, Expedia for trip planning and hotel bookings, and Shopify for shopping across millions of merchants. The partnerships significantly expand Muse’s ability to complete real-world tasks directly within conversations, moving beyond simple chat into a full AI commerce and productivity assistant.
3. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 2.1M contracts, $TSLA with 1.5M contracts, $AAPL with 1.2M contracts, $MU with 964K contracts, $META with 936K contracts, $INTC with 816K contracts, $AMZN with 682K contracts, $GOOGL with 662K contracts, $SPCX with 644K contracts, and $AMD with 622K contracts.
4. SoFi $SOFI has become the first U.S. national bank to go live with stablecoin settlement across Mastercard’s $MA network. The company is moving its full debit and credit card program—representing more than $25B in annualized payment volume—to blockchain-based settlement using SoFiUSD, a stablecoin redeemable 1:1 for U.S. dollars. Merchants will not need to hold stablecoins or build new infrastructure, with funds able to settle directly into a SoFi Bank account and be withdrawn as cash. SoFi also said it is in discussions with major U.S. retailers and technology platforms, while it and Mastercard are exploring cross-border payments and remittances as the next phase of the partnership.
5. SanDisk $SNDK jumped 7% after Rosenblatt initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $2,400 price target, calling it “not your father’s SanDisk.” The firm argues AI is transforming NAND from a commodity storage product into a system-critical component of AI infrastructure, creating a significantly stronger long-term growth story. Rosenblatt also highlighted that SanDisk recently joined the S&P 100, a milestone that could increase institutional ownership and index-related demand for the stock.
6. Michael Burry said he is now at full size across several positions, calling current market prices “rather attractive.” He added to short positions in Micron $MU, Nebius $NBIS, the Semiconductor ETF $SOXX, and Palantir $PLTR, while increasing long positions in QXO $QXO, Build-A-Bear Workshop $BBW, Sprouts Farmers Market $SFM, Birkenstock $BIRK, and MercadoLibre $MELI. Burry wrote, “I find the prices offered by the market rather attractive. All these positions are full positions for me now.”
7. AppLovin $APP was reiterated Buy by Citi with a $600 price target after new data pointed to accelerating e-commerce adoption. Citi said the platform had 13,105 global e-commerce clients as of September 18, up 5.1% week over week, the fastest growth rate in 5 months. International merchant growth accelerated 11.5% week over week, outpacing the U.S., while quarter-to-date weekly growth averaged 2.0%, implying roughly 11,600 e-commerce stores on the platform by Q3 2026.
8. Apple $AAPL unveiled a new Mac mini and Mac Studio, with a major focus on on-device AI performance. The new Mac mini features the M6 chip and delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, starting at $899. The new Mac Studio is powered by the M5 Max or M5 Ultra, with the top configuration offering up to 512GB of unified memory, 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth, an 80-core GPU, and the ability to run large language models entirely on-device. Apple is also introducing Thunderbolt 5 with RDMA, enabling multiple Mac Studios to be linked together for up to 3x faster distributed AI inference. The Mac Studio starts at $2,499, while the M5 Ultra model starts at $5,499.
9. IonQ $IONQ said it has demonstrated what it calls the industry's first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder running on a standard off-the-shelf CPU. The system was tested on benchmark circuits simulating up to 408 logical qubits and more than 31.5M quantum operations, while adding as little as 0.02% processing overhead. The decoder runs continuously in the background, enabling quantum error correction without interrupting quantum execution. IonQ said the milestone supports its Walking Cat architecture and its roadmap toward quantum systems capable of controlling thousands of qubits.
10. China imported 1,141 tonnes of gold during the first 8 months of 2026, the largest amount ever recorded for that period and already more than the country's total gold imports for all of 2025. At the current pace, annual imports are on track to exceed 1,700 tonnes for the first time. Chinese gold ETFs also added 44 tonnes over the first eight months of the year, up 18% year over year. The surge has been driven by strong investment demand, economic uncertainty, and a stronger yuan, which has made overseas gold purchases more attractive.
11. Spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $999M in inflows on Monday, their largest daily intake since October 2025 and the 9th-largest daily inflow since U.S. Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024. The move followed another strong session on Friday, when the funds brought in $433M. Demand was led by $IBIT, which attracted $381M, its third-largest daily inflow since launch, bringing its total over the last 3 trading days to $665M. So far in September, spot Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $1.3B in inflows after pulling in $3.5B during August, highlighting continued institutional demand for Bitcoin exposure.
12. President Trump disclosed 1,156 securities transactions made on his behalf in July, totaling roughly $79M–$270M, including at least $43.6M in purchases and $35.6M in sales. The largest disclosed transactions were $5M–$25M sales of $MSFT Microsoft and $AMZN Amazon on July 20, followed three days later by smaller purchases in both companies. Other notable moves included selling $1M–$5M of Oracle while buying stocks such as $NVDA Nvidia, $INTU Intuit, $MRVL Marvell, $CRM Salesforce, and $CHD Church & Dwight, alongside significant rotation through ETFs, Treasuries, municipal bonds, and international bond funds. The White House said the portfolio is independently managed by third-party financial institutions and that neither President Trump nor his family directs the trades. The July filing follows 1,051 disclosed transactions in June, while Trump's 2025 annual financial disclosure reported more than 21,000 trades across 8 accounts.
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Apple has done the best, most likely because of its lack of exposure to capex.
Nvidia is second best due to unbelievable levels of growth, probably deserves Apple’s multiple.
Meta has just taken the lead ahead of Google and Amazon. It was lagging behind all year. Google went flat after the $85B equity raise. Amazon just hasn’t been able to move after its last earnings pump.
Microsoft is flat but +40% from the lows when it was effectively in a bear market for most of the year with IGV and SaaS.
Tesla is the only one negative YTD and is probably going to need to show earnings growth accelerate again before the street easily gives it the $450 range that it kept it at until Q2’s numbers.
In 2023, the Mag 7 were holding up the S&P 500. In 2026, names like $MU $AMD $SNDK $INTC and other semis are the reason for the S&P’s move this year and are all up 2-5x on the year.
I wonder if the Mag 7 regain their momentum as the main market performers going into 2027…
View original →NeutralAAPLAppleAppleNVDANVIDIANVIDIA A TON OF THINGS HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY.
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1. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 bps for the first time since July 2023 in a unanimous 12-0 decision. In its statement, the Fed said Middle East conflicts and broader geopolitical developments contributed to the decision. The updated dot plot now points to one more 25 bps hike in 2026, with 12 of 18 officials expecting exactly one additional hike, 4 expecting two more hikes, and 2 expecting no further hikes. The Fed also projects 2 additional rate hikes in 2027, signaling policymakers expect rates to remain higher for longer.
2. President Trump is expected to meet with Gulf leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York next Tuesday to discuss the next phase of the Iran conflict, according to reports. The discussions are expected to focus on U.S. proposals for a postwar strategy, with leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, expected to participate. The meeting comes as the administration works on a broader postwar framework ahead of the Sept. 24 Trump–Xi summit, where regional security and AI are also expected to be discussed.
3. Generac $GNRC signed a long-term agreement to supply backup power generators for Amazon $AMZN data centers, with total payments under the deal potentially reaching $8B. Initial generator deliveries are expected to total roughly $2.4B across 2027 and 2028. As part of the agreement, Amazon received warrants to purchase up to 1.69M Generac shares at $200.93 each, with about 308K shares vesting immediately and the rest vesting in stages as Amazon’s payments move toward the $8B threshold. The warrants are exercisable through September 2033. The deal gives Generac a major long-term hyperscaler customer as AI data center growth continues driving demand for backup power and broader energy infrastructure.
4. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said today’s rate hike removed a “dose of accommodation,” adding that the move shows the Fed is serious about restoring price stability. Warsh also said he believes the Fed can bring inflation back under control without damaging the labor market: “We don’t need to do harm to the job market to achieve our objective.” On AI, he said the Fed is closely monitoring developments but that decisions around AI’s risks and rewards belong to other policymakers, adding that the Fed’s AI task force is expected to report back by year-end. Meanwhile, White House official Desai called the Fed’s rate hike “rather unfortunate.”
5. Nebius $NBIS announced another ~20% price increase for on-demand H100, H200, B200, and B300 GPUs, effective October 1, just 4 months after raising prices by roughly 30%. The company also posted 5 first-place results in the latest MLPerf AI inference benchmarks, including the top full-rack performance on NVIDIA’s GB300 NVL72. Nebius was one of only 2 companies to submit results on NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, achieving 603K tokens/sec running DeepSeek R1 across 72 GPUs in the preview category. The results further reinforce Nebius’ infrastructure capabilities, engineering execution, and close partnership with NVIDIA.
6. The top 10 most active options today by contracts traded were $NVDA with 3.0M contracts, $TSLA with 2.4M contracts, $AAPL with 1.6M contracts, $SPCX with 1.2M contracts, $INTC with 1.0M contracts, $MU with 857K contracts, $META with 857K contracts, $AMZN with 854K contracts, $AMD with 743K contracts, and $HOOD with 403K contracts.
7. Trump administration officials are reportedly considering a meeting with major AI and tech executives on the sidelines of Xi Jinping’s Washington visit next week, though nothing has been finalized, according to CNN. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang are among those expected to be in Washington for the state dinner and could potentially attend. The proposed discussion would focus on the future of AI and related risks, although Xi is not currently expected to participate. The meeting comes as the U.S. and China also prepare to discuss shared AI risks ahead of the September 24 Trump–Xi summit.
8. Chipotle $CMG is partnering with Palantir $PLTR to strengthen food safety monitoring across its restaurants. Chipotle will use Palantir’s platform to track potential food safety risks, including pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other operational factors that could impact restaurant safety. The partnership comes after a challenging summer for food safety across the U.S. and highlights how Palantir continues expanding beyond government and industrial customers into large-scale commercial use cases, where its software is being used to improve operational decision-making and risk management.
9. U.S. homebuilder confidence fell to 32, its weakest reading since late 2022, as elevated mortgage rates continued weighing on demand. The average 30-year mortgage rate has climbed back above 7%, near its highest level in almost 2 years. Builders are increasingly responding with incentives, with 38% cutting prices and 66% offering buyer concessions. At the same time, housing inventory has reached a 7-year high, while Redfin estimates there were 58% more sellers than buyers in August, the widest imbalance since it began tracking the data in 2013.
10. Nokia $NOK is expanding AI-RAN trials with operators across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East as carriers move from early evaluations into lab and live-field testing. The platform combines Nokia’s anyRAN software with NVIDIA’s Aerial RAN Computer and has delivered more than 20% improvement in spectral efficiency, according to Nokia. New and ongoing partners include A1 Group, Chunghwa Telecom, du, e&, Mobily, stc, TPG Telecom, Zain Saudi, and NTT DOCOMO, while earlier evaluations involved T-Mobile, SoftBank, and Indosat. Nokia and NVIDIA are also expanding their AI-RAN collaboration as the telecom industry moves toward AI-native 5G and 6G networks.
11. Apple $AAPL is reportedly weighing a return to the server market with an AI-focused enterprise system built around its own M-series chips and NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion networking technology, according to The Information. The proposed servers would use either 2 or 4 M8 Ultra chips and target AI developers, enterprises, and governments looking to run AI inference on private infrastructure. The project is currently aimed for 2029, though the plans could still change or be canceled. The move follows surging demand from AI developers for Mac mini and Mac Studio systems, helping drive Mac revenue up nearly 29% last quarter to $10.4B. If launched, it would mark Apple’s return to the server market for the first time since discontinuing Xserve in 2011.
12. CoreWeave $CRWV signed a definitive 15-year anchor lease with Blockfusion for capacity at its Niagara Falls, New York AI data center campus. The former power plant is being converted into a high-density, liquid-cooled AI facility powered predominantly by hydroelectric energy. The agreement further expands CoreWeave’s long-term AI infrastructure footprint while leveraging low-cost, renewable power to support next-generation GPU deployments.
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